The invisible cure : Africa, the West, and the fight against AIDS / Helen Epstein.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

xxiii, 326 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and index.

AIDS research for beginners. The outsiders ; The mysterious origins of HIV ; Why are HIV rates so high in Africa? ; The African earthquake -- What happened in southern Africa. Gold rush ; A president, a crisis, a tragedy ; AIDS, Inc. ; Why don't they listen? -- What happened in Uganda and Washington and Geneva. The invisible cure ; Forensic science ; God and the fight against AIDS ; When foreign aid is an ATM -- The front lines. The lost children of AIDS ; Wartime ; The underground economy of AIDS -- Traditional medicine -- A magic bullet after all?.